There's not much point in swapping any of the non-rare ones. Seeing as, in the entire print run of tokens, there's about 300 actual winners. It's in effect no difference to any other prize-draw, the only difference being people perceive themselves as being in with more of a chance because they have three stations. The fact that there's only 25 Liverpool Street tokens in circulation doesn't seem to matter.

Gremmi wrote:
There's not much point in swapping any of the non-rare ones. Seeing as, in the entire print run of tokens, there's about 300 actual winners. It's in effect no difference to any other prize-draw, the only difference being people perceive themselves as being in with more of a chance because they have three stations. The fact that there's only 25 Liverpool Street tokens in circulation doesn't seem to matter.

This post doesnt make any sense at all.
The point of swapping is to complete a set. If someone needs 1 station to complete the set and they get it through swapping, then they win.

Funny that. A family of middle-eastern shit-scrapers came wondering in to McDonalds last time I was in there and went around every table taking people's empty drink cups and chip packets right in front of them.

One came up to me and I looked at them with a face that can only be described as a 'What-the-fuck-are-you-doing?' face as they lifted my half-full chip packet off of my tray. Clearly so focused on finding a Mayfair tile they forgot to notice the guy twice their size they were stealing from. He put the packet down quite sharpish when I stood up.

There's zero point swapping any of the non-rare ones unless you already have Liverpool Street.

In the same way, there's tens of thousands of Park Lane, but only one single Mayfair token.

I think you are missing the point of this thread.

Seeing as absolutely no-one in this thread legitimately have any of the rare tokens, I think you're missing my point.

If you happen to come across Mayfair you wouldn't find someone who had Park Lane and split the winnings, you'd go to McDonalds and buy 20 quids worth of meals and pick up one of the stupidly-easy-to-obtain Park Lanes for yourself, saving you £249,980.

Say they had a contest where they put 200,000 red balls and five white balls into a sack, and you paid a fiver to draw two which you could keep and store.

If, to collect the first prize, you had to collect three red balls and one white ball, if you drew a white and a red, you wouldn't run around to everyone saying you'll split the prize with them if they give you their red balls.

Likewise, if you draw two reds, you wouldn't swap them for two other reds.

If you take this scenario and overlay it onto the McDonald's game, all non-rare stations are red balls. They're worthless, utterly worthless, without that elusive white ball. They're also extremely easy to obtain by themselves.